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Smooth freshwater stingray

Fontitrygon garouaensis
Ci turam: The species name garouaensis refers to Garoua, a city in Cameroon where the first known specimen was caught.1
Dafay metti rekkDafay metti, waaye du la lor bu bon.
Jën yu am daŋar Dafay jamDafay lekk: Gunóor
Musiba ci nit: Dafay mettiMën na metti lool, waaye lu bon du faral di am.

The Niger stingray is a flat, freshwater fish related to sea stingrays. It lives in a few large rivers in Nigeria and Cameroon in West Africa. Its long tail has a stinging spine that can cause a painful wound.1

Dafay dund ci
Rivers in Nigeria and Cameroon, in West Africa1
Afrig
Kër
It lives only in fresh water, in the Benue and lower Niger rivers, the lower Sanaga River and the Cross River. Waders in these rivers can be injured by its tail spine.1
Guddaay
40 cm (1,3 ft)1
Gaawaay bu gën a kawe
lu tollu ci 15 km/h (9,3 mph)
Féey, xalaat
Lan lay lekk?
It feeds almost entirely on the aquatic young of mayflies, stoneflies and caddisflies, and only rarely on true flies.1

Ni ngay ko xàmmee

  • Nearly circular, flat body disk, about as wide as it is long1
  • Mostly smooth skin, with a small patch of tiny bumps at the centre of the back or none at all1
  • Plain brown or grey on top, paler towards the edge of the disk1
  • White underneath, with white-edged fins1
  • Whip-like tail with one or more stinging spines, grows to about 40 cm wide1

Kàttanu daŋar

Dafay jam

Daŋar bi dafay génn ci ab dag buy jam.

Ni mu lore nit ñi?

Musiba ci nit: Dafay mettiMën na metti lool, waaye lu bon du faral di am.

The tail spine can inflict a painful wound and is potentially injurious to people wading in its rivers.1

Su jamee

  • Teg gaañu-gaañu bi ci ndox mu tàng, lu nit ki mën a muñ waaye bu dul ko lakk (seetal ko ak sa loxo), diir bu dale 30 ba 90 minit. Wutal ndimbal doktoor, rawatina ci jënu-doj ak raie.

Saa su nekk, woo jëkk sa nimerob urgence (112, 000, 911). Lii ay ndigal yu yaatu ci ndimbal yu jëkk la, du ndigalu doktoor. Li war a xam ci ndimbal yu jëkk

Sàmmal sa bopp

  • Bul laal mukk, bul jàpp, bul sonal ab rab bu àll, doonte bu ndaw la, te doonte dafa mel ni dafa nelaw walla dafa dee.
  • May ko bérab. Su nga ko gisee, dalal, dellu ginnaaw ndànk-ndànk te bàyyi ko mu dem yoonam.
  • Su benn jamee la: dalal, bul yëngu, woo sa nimerob urgence (112, 000, 911) walla dem lopitaan ci gaaw. Bul fàtte ni mu meloon, ab nataal dina dimbali.

Du la wut. Dafay jëfandikoo daŋaram ngir jàpp lu muy lekk walla ngir aar boppam, te nëbbu moo ko gën a neex. Yeneen ci ni ngay sàmme sa bopp

Ni mu réye?

Ni mu guddoo?

Smooth freshwater stingray guddaayam lu tollu ci 40 cm (1,3 ft)Ab banaana lu tollu ci 18 cm (7,1 in)Ab muusu kër lu tollu ci 50 cm (1,6 ft)
guddu na ni 2 banaana yu ñu toftaleguddu na ni 12 bloku tabax yu ñu toftalemën na féey guddaayu pisin bu réy (50 m) ci 12 segond

Smooth freshwater stingray ni mu réye ci wetu YOW?

Ay waññ rekk ci sa navigateur. Dara du denc te dara du yónnee fenn.

Ni mu gaawe?

baax na xam

Xibaar

1

Local Hausa people call it kunaman ruwa, which means water scorpion.1

2

It is one of only two freshwater stingrays in Africa.1

3

Its electrical sense organs are smaller and simpler than those of sea stingrays, which suits life in fresh water.1

4

It is caught by accident and sold fresh or smoked as food.1

5

Males may live up to five years and females up to seven years.1

Ngir boroom xam-xam ci daŋar

Turu xam-xam
Fontitrygon garouaensis
Mbooloo
Jën yu am daŋar
Njaboot
Dasyatidae2
Toftal
Myliobatiformes
Kontinaa yi
Afrig
Liir yi
It is ovoviviparous, meaning the eggs develop inside the mother and the young are born live.1
Diiru dund
lu tollu ci 7 at1
Ni mu nekke ci àll bi
Critically Endangered1
Musiba ci nit
2 / 5: Dafay metti3

Fa xibaar yi jóge

  1. Niger stingray (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Fontitrygon garouaensis (iNaturalist): tur ak ni ñu leen séddale.
  3. Venom Wiki: tolluwaayu musiba bi, réyaay bu yem bi ak xalaatu gaawaay bi, nun ñoo leen defar. Seetal ni nu leen waññe: Ni nuy natte musiba.

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